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About Me

Sunday 6th April 8pm I’ll be playing some songs on a tv program called "The Red Room" channel 186 on Sky. Tune in if you’re interested. My debut album "Life, Death, and the Absurdity of Being" is available from all good download sites. You can also order a physical copy from my website for £5.99 post free. Clicking the "lamb" album cover, or the "numlomo" link below, will take you straight to the site.
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There is a monthly draw for everyone that buys a copy and the "lucky" winner will receive an object of random beauty from my random object collection. I’ll vandalise it a little by stamping "num" on it with my trusty old lino cut and then post it to you. I obviously won’t have the names of everyone who downloads the album but if you have downloaded it and want to be entered in this peculiar draw just email me your name and address. How strange. There is also a FREE album to download on my website called "lamb" which is an album of stripped down versions of some of my songs. It was recorded in one 38 minute take, a show with no audience. The link below takes you to the website where you can download it or if you can’t download, send for a free hard copy... Also there is a free studio EP to download called "The dead mans handbag".
See you there.
Tony

I am compelled to write and record songs in the vague hope that people who are also confused and numbed by our insane culture can relate to them and maybe feel better knowing they’re not alone (does that make sense?). I’ve just finished yet another new website (this one loads quicker) so don’t be a stranger. Below you’ll see a link to my lomo slideshow, it sort of acts like a universal video for the songs you can play on my site (hard to explain, go see it...). Also I’ve put all my old blog entries into one new one, I say "blog" but it’s more like the frantic observations of someone nearing the end. I’ve recorded my new album but I’m still fiddling with it... As soon as I have a few tracks completely finished I’ll post them here.
Watch the video for "One Side Love" by herd.kill.sheep
Watch the video for "thankk you"
Watch the video for "rocket"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/7/2006
Band Website: num.theleadballoon.com
Band Members: num tony
Influences: Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith, John Betjeman, Grandaddy, Joanna Newsom, CocoRosie, Belle and Sebastian, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Mark Lanegan, David Bowie, Devendra Banhart, Edna St Vincent Millay, LOMOGRAPHY
Sounds Like: The sound of a radio on fire in a time machine
Record Label: The Lead Balloon Recording Company
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Sheepish Return of the Occasional Blogger...

I am sometimes embarrassed by my lack of consistency and my inability to maintain things, but here I go again... I start writing, almost regularly and then life comes along in it's fancy overcoat, to ...
Posted by num on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:48:00 PST

words to "lamb"

  Hey there   Here's the words to "lamb", I was going to put them on my website as well as the other's but my head is full of static from staring at a screen for too long so this was easier....
Posted by num on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:56:00 PST

The Square Peg in the Round Hole...

world weary is a good expression. It's how I feel most of the time. I genuinely think I'll just stop sometimes, my heart will just say "no more" and shut down. Everybody else seems so able to cope wit...
Posted by num on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:22:00 PST

free album...

Hey, at last, here is that free album I was harping on about. Sorry for delay. Hope you like it. Tony
Posted by num on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:00:00 PST

a thing that has no substance merits no subject...

...a hot, uncomfortable night, someones television lightly entertains them in a sticky room next door or somewhere, BBC world service drifting through from the kitchen, the constant hum of the bl...
Posted by num on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:32:00 PST